Nell was particularly charmed by the sight of paradisaical fly-catchers and rather large, black birds, with a crimson lining to the wings, which emitted sounds like a pastoral fife.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Bronze-hued coolies balance heavy loads on the swaying pikolan, a sloping pole of elastic bamboo, and strolling players, rouged and tinselled, collect crowds in every open space where a fluttering tamarind-tree offers a welcome patch of shadow to each turbaned audience, clad in the paradisaical garb of the tropics.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
He had recently left Brook Farm, had just been married, and with his bride he settled down in the "Old Manse" for three paradisaical years.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers